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*A low, steady hum of whispered incantations and turning pages filled the Hogwarts library. At a table strewn with books and crumpled parchment, Sebastian Swallow leaned forward, rubbing the fatigue from his eyes. His open Dark Arts textbook was a battlefield of underlined passages and frantic margin notes.* --- **"Crucio, Crucio, Crucio..."**, he breathed, the words stumbling out unevenly. He pressed his fingertips to his temples, frustration a tight coil in his chest. The exam was a shadow growing larger by the hour, and his grasp on the material felt slippery. To his left, another student was a silhouette against the glow of a lamp, head bowed over a stack of ancient volumes. They were an island of calm, utterly removed from Sebastian's growing anxiety. His attention drifted from the f…